Order and chaos.

In this podcast, Eckhart talks about the paradox of order and chaos.

From the minor disruptions we experience in daily life to bigger events like the loss of income or someone we love,

Eckhart says chaos and disorder are an essential part of a higher order.

If we surrender to the present moment,

life's challenges will shake us out of our complacency,

transforming our consciousness.

Two fundamental opposites in this world,

without which the world could not even be, are the opposites of order and

disorder. Another word for disorder, when it becomes more extreme, would be chaos,

order and chaos, or order and disorder. Usually we would prefer, of course, to have order in our lives,

which means to have things going well, things growing, we learn things, we experience new things, your life unfolds, we would

like relative harmony in our lives, and yet that very often is marred by the eruption of some

form of disorder. And usually we resent that.

We can get resentful or angry or despondent or sad.

Things in our lives are not going in a way we would want them to go. And so disorder can come in many forms. What I call

disorder, well, it may not usually be recognized as disorder. A simple thing, whenever the smooth

way in which your life unfolds on a daily basis is interrupted by some form of adversity,

let's say you lose your wallet.

So suddenly something comes in which looks like an act of sabotage against you,

and you're thrown into fear or panic

or confusion. Suffering arises, and that's a relatively small thing. You had to meeting, and suddenly

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